BBC Maestro Storytelling Course – Alan Moore

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Join the maestro of storytelling and learn to create mesmerising fiction by mastering inventive language, characterisation, world-building and more.

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The Course

Alan Moore has dedicated his life to writing and now he’s letting you peek in on his previously private process. This writing course will inspire you to create mesmerising fiction by interweaving language, story, character, setting, world-building and more. Let this esoteric genius inspire you to build a life as a writer and deliver your very best work.

Your Maestro

This creative writing course comes from the incessantly imaginative bestseller, Alan Moore. His writing straddles genre with comics like From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Swamp Thing, and modern literary classics, including Jerusalem, a 1,266-page experimental epic novel set over centuries and realms in his hometown of Northampton.

He made it on to Time’s 100 Best Novels list and has won numerous awards leading to cult-like, legendary status and critical acclaim. Each morsel of wisdom out of Alan’s mouth will have you thinking in a new way.

Lessons

• 1.ALAN’S INTRODUCTION : Welcome to Alan’s world. Where magic and storytelling intertwine, and good writing is valued over public opinion.
• 2. WRITING AS ENCHANTMENT
• 3. BECOMING A WRITER
• 4. FOUR WEAPONS
• 5. LEARNING TO READ
• 6. IMAGINATION – FIRE OF THE GODS
• 7. LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY
• 8. THE NEUROLOGY OF WRITING
• 9. HEMINGWAY VS. BAUDELAIRE
• 10. FASCINATING RHYTHM

• 11. INVENTIVE LANGUAGE
• 12. STRUCTURE
• 13. GENRE
• 14. MODE
• 15. TIME AND TIMING
• 16. MISDIRECTION
• 17. CHARACTER
• 18. EXTREME CHARACTER
• 19. PLACE
• 20. CREATING PLACE
• 21. PERIOD
• 22. CONSIDERING MEDIA
• 23. COMIC CUTS
• 24. SCREEN GEMS
• 25. WORDS, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE
• 26. FUTURE MEDIA
• 27. THE NEED FOR PROGRESS
• 28. FORWARD MOVEMENTS
• 29. APPROACHES TO THE FUTURE
• 30. LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE
• 31. THE EVOLUTION OF WRITING
• 32. PERMISSION TO WRITE
• 33. EXTRODUCTION

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Course notes

51 pages

Master literary techniques and turn your wildest thoughts into fantastic fiction.